A GENERAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS READING LIST FOR PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS (Revised October 2013)

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1 1 A GENERAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS READING LIST FOR PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS (Revised October 2013) The doctoral written comprehensive examination in International Relations consists of a threepart, three-hour examination. Each part is of equal weight, and the candidate will answer one question from each part (each part will have a choice of questions). The three parts are as follows: Part One is on General International Relations Theory. Part Two will be on Foreign Policy, Strategic Studies, International Law and Organizations, and International Political Economy. (Candidates will read in all four subsections.) Part Three focuses more specifically on a candidate s particular area of specialization. As part of the preparation process, candidates, the supervisor and the supervisory committee should reach a written agreement on the specific focus on the third section, and the supervisor and supervisory committee should develop the necessary reading list for the candidate. That agreement, this list, and the list for the third section should be passed on to other members of the examining committee and to the IR caucus more generally when the exam is being developed. PART I: GENERAL IR THEORY Anthologies, Journals and Miscellaneous Collections Scott Burchill et al., Theories of International Relations, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Walter Carlsnaes et al., Handbook of International Relations. (NB 2002 and 2012 editions) Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 Martin Griffiths, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations. Ivor B. Neumann and Ole Waever, The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making. Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal, The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Jennifer Sterling-Folker (ed.), Making Sense of International Relations Theory. International Organization. Special Issue 52, 4 (1998) Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics In addition, students should be aware of the wide range of journals in the field. International Organization, International Studies Review, World Politics, International Security and International Studies Quarterly are leading North American journals. The American Political Science Review and other broader Political Science journals in North American will also be significant. A more European perspective will be found in journals such as Millennium, Review of

2 2 International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and Review of International Political Economy. Students should also be aware of Columbia International Affairs Online ( which links to a vast array of research institutes, papers and journals. It is updated monthly. Papers presented at the International Studies association annual meetings are available on their website ( As well, the Library menu of the United States Institute for Peace ( also provides links to a huge array of research institutes internationally. The International Studies Association Compendium, a set of 400+ bibliographic and survey essays, plus databases, etc., is now available through the University of Calgary Library. Go to the Catalogue and click on Search Databases. Go to Political Science and find International Studies Online. As well, some material relevant to IR, directly or indirectly, may be found in another (free) collection available online, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, at History of the Field, General Debates Miles Kahler, Inventing International Relations: International Relations Theory After 1945, in New Thinking in International Relations Theory, ed. by Michael W. Doyle and John G. Ikenberry (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp Brian C. Schmidt, On the History and Historiography of International Relations, in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons eds., Handbook of International Relations (London: Sage, 2002), pp Steve Smith, The Discipline of International Relations: still an American Social Science? British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2, 3 (2000): Yosef Lapid, The Third Debate: on the Prospects of International Theory in a Post-Positivist Era, International Studies Quarterly 33 (1989). Ole Wæver, The Rise and Fall of the Inter-Paradigm Debate, in International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, ed. by Steve Smith, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp Robert Powell, "Anarchy in International Relations Theory: The Neorealist-Neoliberal Debate." International Organization (1994). Peter Wilson, The Myth of the First Great Debate, Review of International Studies 24, 5 (1998): Robert Keohane, International Institutions: Two Approaches, International Studies Quarterly 32, 4 (1988): Robert O. Keohane (ed.) Neorealism and Its Critics New York: Columbia University Press, 1986 JX 1391.N

3 3 David Baldwin (ed.), Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). Science and Methods Andrew Bennett and Colin Elman, Qualitative Research: Recent Developments in Case Study Methods, Annual Review of Political Science, (2006): Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005). H 61.G John Vasquez, The Post-Positivist Debate: Reconstructing Scientific Enquiry and International Relations after Enlightenment s Fall, in International Relations Theory Today, ed. Ken Booth and Steve Smith (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), Richard Hermann. Linking Theory and Evidence in International Relations, in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons eds., Handbook of International Relations Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch Strategies for research in constructivist international relations. Milja Kurki and Colin Wight, International Relations and Social Science, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds), International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp Ruth Lane, Positivism, Scientific Realism and Political Science: Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 8, no. 3 (1996): Rudra Sil and Peter J. Katzenstein, Beyond Paradigms: Analytical Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics, (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Rational Action Bryan D. Jones, Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance, Chicago 2001 David A. Lake and Robert Powell (eds.) Strategic Choice and International Relations,, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp And in general. Jonathan Mercer, Prospect Theory and Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8, 2005: Constructivisms Jeffery Checkel, The Constructivist Turn in International Theory, World Politics 50, 2 (1998): Friedrich Kratochwil, Rules, Norms and Decisions.

4 4 Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, Taking Stock: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Annual Review of Political Science, 4: V. Kubalkova, Foreign policy in a constructed world Nicholas Onuf, Making sense, making worlds: constructivism in social theory and international relations John Gerard Ruggie, What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-Utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge, International Organization, 52 (Autumn 1998), pp Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Antje Wiener, Constructivism: The Limits of Bridging Gaps, Journal of International Relations and Development 6, no. 3 (2003): Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, International Norm Dynamics and Political Change, International Organization 52 (1998): Antje Wiener, The invisible constitution of politics: contested norms and international encounters Major Modern Theory Groups Realisms Buzan, Barry, C. Jones and R. Little, The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism. New York: Columbia University Press, Barry Buzan, The Timeless Wisdom of Realism? in Ken Booth, Steve Smith and Marysia Zalewski eds, International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis, : An Introduction to the Study of International Relations (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2001). Michael W. Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), Part One. JX Stephen Forde, Classical Realism, in Terry Nardin and David R. Marpel eds., Traditions of International Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Joseph Grieco, Anarchy and the Limits of Co-operation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism, International Organization, 42 (Fall 1988), pp Krasner, Stephen D., Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

5 5 Morgenthau, Hans J., Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, various editions. William E. Scheuerman The Realist Case for Global Reform Waltz, Kenneth N., Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press, Waltz, Kenneth N., Theory of International Politics. Reading: Addison-Wesley, See also Ruggie's review in World Politics, January J. Samuel Barkin, Realist Constructivism Stephen G. Brooks, Dueling Realisms International Organization, Vol. 51 No. 3 (Summer 1997): Steven E. Lobell et al, Neoclassical Realism, The State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Brian Rathbun, A Rose by Any Other Name: Neoclassical Realism as the Logical and Necessary Extension of Structural Realism. Security Studies, Vol. 17 (2008), pp Gideon Rose, Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy, World Politics (Oct. 1998), pp Liberalisms Thomas Risse-Kappen, ed., Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Doyle, Michael W., Liberalism and World Politics Revisited, in Charles W. Kegley, ed., Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge. New York: St. Martin s Press, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, Domestic Explanations of International Relations, Annual Review of Political Science 2012, Vol. 15: Robert O. Keohane and J. S. Nye, Power and Interdependence (Boston: Little Brown, 1977). JX Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). David Long, The Harvard School of Liberal International Theory: A Case for Closure," Millennium, 24, 3, Winter 1995, pp Andrew Moravcsik, Liberal International Relations Theory: A Scientific Assessment, in Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field, eds. Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003), pp

6 6 Mark Zacher and Richard Matthew, Liberal International Theory: Common Threads, Divergent Strands, in C. Kegley, ed., Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995). Critical Theory and Alternative Approaches Robert W. Cox, Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, in Neorealism and Its Critics ed. Robert O. Keohane (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp James Der Derian and Michael J. Shapiro (eds.), International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics Lexington, 1989 Stephen Hobden and John M. Hobson (eds.) Historical Sociology of International Relations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) George Lawson, The Promise of Historical Sociology in International Relations, International Studies Review 2006: Andrew Linklater, The achievements of critical theory, in, International Theory: Positiv-ism and Beyond, eds. Steve Smith, Ken Booth and Marysia Zalewski (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp Andrew Linklater and Hidemi Suganami, The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment Cambridge 2006 Harald Müller, Arguing, Bargaining and All That: Communicative Action, Rationalist Theory and the Logic of Appropriateness in International Relations, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 10, No. 3, (2004): Review of International Studies Special Issue Critical International Relations Theory after 25 Years) Supplement, April Thomas Risse, Let s Argue! Communicative Action in World Politics, International Organization, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Winter 2000), pp Foreign Policy PART II: FOUR THEMATIC AREAS Palmer, Glenn & Morgan, T Clifton, A Theory of Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). Smith, Steve (eds) et al. Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

7 7 Hudson, Valerie M. Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory (Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2007). Renshon, Stanley A. & Larson, Deborah Welch (eds.) Good Judgment in Foreign Policy: Theory and Application (Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). Chernoff, Fred. The Power of International Theory: Reforging the Link to foreign policy-making through scientific enquiry (London: Routledge, 2005). Beasley, Ryan K. et al Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on State Behavior Washington: CQ Press Alden, Chris Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches Routledge Neack, Laura The New Foreign Policy: US and Comparative Foreign Policy in the 21 st Century Rowman and Littlefield Walker, Stephen G. Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: States, Leaders and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations Routledge Strategic Studies David Baldwin. The Concept of Security, Review of International Studies 23:1 (1997): John Baylis, James J. Wirtz and Colin Gray eds. Strategy in the Contemporary World 3 rd edition. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). Richard Betts, Should Strategic Studies Survive? World Politics 50 (October 1997):7-33. Hedley Bull. Strategic Studies and its Critics, World Politics 20 (1968): Barry Buzan, Ole Waever and Jaap de Wilde. Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publisher, Alan Collins ed. Contemporary Security Studies. 2 nd edition. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Richard Kolodziej, Renaissance in Security Studies? Caveat Lector! International Studies Quarterly 36 (1992): Keith Krause and Michael Williams. "Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies: Politics and Methods", Mershon International Studies Review 40 (1996). Richard Ullman. Redefining Security in Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security ed. Sean Lynn-Jones and Steven Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, Stephen Walt. The Renaissance of Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly 35 (1991):

8 8 Stuart Croft and Terry Terriff, editors, Critical Reflections on Security and Change (London: Frank Cass & Co, 2000) [also all in Contemporary Security Policy, Vol 20, no ] Terry Terriff, Stuart Croft, Lucy James and Patrick Morgan, Security Studies Today (1999) comprehensive look at the changes up to 1999 (focus on new security issues, includes IR connection) Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen, The Evolution of International Security (overview of the field in 2009) International Law and Organizations International Organization 54, 3 (2000) entire special Issue on Legalization and World Politics Christian Reus-Smit, ed., The Politics of International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) Michael Byers, Custom, Power and the Power of Rules (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereign in the International Legal Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerard Ruggie, International Organization: a State of the Art on an Art of the State, International Organization 40, 4 (1986): Craig N. Murphy, International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance Since 1850 (Oxford: oxford University Press, 1994). Rorden Wilkinson, ed., The Global Governance Reader. (London: Routledge, 2005). Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett, Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). International Political Economy Albert O. Hirschman, National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade. (University of California Press, 1980) Susan Strange, States and Markets. (Pinter, 1994) Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. (Princeton University Press, 2001) Wolfgang Mommsen, Theories of Imperialism. (Random House, 1980)

9 9 Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression. (University of California Press, 2013) Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System. (Princeton University Press, 2008) Thomas H. Oatley, International Political Economy, (Longman, 2012) Anthony Brewer, Marxist theories of imperialism: a critical survey (Routledge, 1999) Ronald Rogowski, Commerce and Coalitions: how trade affects domestic political alignments (Princeton University Press, 1989) Ngaire Woods, The globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank, and their borrowers. (Cornell University Press, 2006) PART III: SPECIFIC TOPICS This will consist of specific topical foci for students, to be selected in consultation with supervisors, and with appropriate reading lists to be developed with supervisors. This could reflect additional topic specializations, or a further development of specific sectors from Sections IA and IB above. The topic areas listed below are meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive. The student should work out the focus and the reading list for this section in consultation with the Supervision and the Supervisory Committee. Some possible areas (examples only): a. Regime theory b. Culture and identity c. Normative and ethical theories, and theories about norms. d. Institutionalism (historical and other) e. Historical sociology. f. Other theories: feminism, post-modernism/post-structuralism, evolutionary/biological, English School, etc. g. Regional foci. As well, specific topics in Foreign Policy and in Strategic Studies could be developed: for example, foreign policy issues for specific states and regions.